Former President Olusegun Obasanjo was reported as storming the inauguration of a convention committee of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP)
Obasanjo said the report that he attended the inauguration was a coup against him and an attempt to cause him embarrassment
His office also narrated what exactly transpired at the Shehu Musa Yar’Adua centre where he was to attend another event but met with the PDP members
Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has said he never attended the inauguration of the committee for the forthcoming convention of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) as widely reported.
Obasanjo had reportedly appeared at the inauguration of the committee in Abuja and had talks with the party officials for six minutes. The report had said the party members held a brief discussion with him before proceeding to inaugurate the committee.
However, another version of the report said it was a chance meeting as Obasanjo was at the venue for a forum organised for farmers. Obasanjo was said to have left the venue about one hour after the PDP event ended.
The report made many Nigerians wonder if the former president was planning to return to the party which he abandoned when he publicly tore his membership card just before the 2015 general election.
In a text message to Premium Times, Obasanjo said the PDP wanted cheap political gains adding that the reports were planned to embarass him and get him angry.
He said he was at the Shehu Musa Yar’Adua centre as guest of Senator Abdullahi Adamu, the chairman, Senate committee on agriculture, when the PDP leaders came to greet him.
He added that his resignation from party politics is final.
He said: “Chief Obasanjo’s resignation from party politics is final.”
Premium Times further reported the former president as saying: “Those who know me, know that I have publicly announced my quitting partisan politics and those who will believe the purported story will believe anybody who tells him that his or her mother is not a woman.
“If I quit a party when it was alive and seemingly united, how could I go back to a now divided, factionalized party grasping for breath?”
In another statement from Obasanjo’s office, he said: “The attention of the former president, His Excellency, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo has been brought to the photonews story, which has gone viral on the social media on Friday, August 5, 2016 of his purported being ‘spotted’ at a Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) event at the Shehu Musa Yar’adua Centre, Abuja’,the statement reads.
“While ordinarily his first reaction to the news was that those behind it targeted to get him annoyed and embarrassed him, his conclusion was that he has told the world that he has quit partisan politics and that is final. Anybody hoping to drag him back will fail like any man feeding mice to a dead cat’,the statement added.
“To clear the minds of doubting Thomas’s and those behind the orchestrated news in circulation and particularly those who had been calling to ascertain what actually happened at the Shehu Musa Yar’adua centre. On the invitation of the Commodities Association Stakeholders, His Excellency, was invited to the ‘Zero Hunger Nigeria’ event at the Centre.
“He arrived at about 10.00am and immediately moved to the meeting. The meeting commenced but few minutes into the session, his attention was drawn to the presence of some people walking up to where he was seated.
“At closer glance, he recognized them to be politicians and they exchanged pleasantries, saying they came to greet him and they walked out again from the meeting. The former President cracked joke with them calling them invaders and gate crashers.
“The photo news in circulation, which claimed that he was spotted at a political party event is therefore mischievous, as a responsible journalist ought to have gone further to ascertain his actual destination in among the number of venues at the centre and not taking photograph of his alighting from his vehicle to read another meaning.
“Shocking also to note that the picture was actually taken while on his way out of the centre after the programme he had attended had finished.
“This is the height of irresponsible journalism, which the former president is calling for its investigation and sanction on anybody involved in order to serve as deterrent to others who may want to be used either by omission or commission to misinform the public on such sensitive issue.”
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